Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 2 | Mrs Helmsley , who began adult life selling cigarettes in a New York cinema , had become so unpopular as the details of her manners and penny-pinching management technique were exposed in court during her trial that her lawyers based an eleventh-hour appeal for mercy on her likely prison victimisation as a ‘ notorious , widely-reviled , vastly wealthy New York Jew . ’ |
| 3 | Designed to improve practitioners ' management skills and understanding of analytical tools and new instruments , in particular those associated with hedging risks and overall Asset/Liability management . |
| 4 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 5 | However they point out that most of the recent studies in Britain indicate that when linked to pre-course qualifications maturity is likely to be an advantage in Arts and Social Science subjects . |
| 6 | Once more , this information in conjunction with the output characteristics and output-signal load line of figure 10.4(b) gives the output signal current and potential difference . |
| 7 | The relationships between these measures and family resources , child , family and parental characteristics and parental coping strategies will be explored using multivariable statistical analyses . |
| 8 | This project will investigate the characteristics and residential decision making of households living in the sector and the extent to which conversions comprise a first affordable step on the owner occupied housing ladder for young first time buyers . |
| 9 | ‘ Simply soak your entire family and any paying guests , pets and visiting gas meter readers in new miracle ‘ ZAPNIT ’ for fifteen hours and all traces of termite will be terminated . ’ |
| 10 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 11 | More than 400 children performed songs and other music items from around the world to parents on Monday and Tuesday night . |
| 12 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 13 | A weekly exchange on progress , problems , people needing redeployment , opportunities , policy decisions , etc is needed between the policymakers and front line managers . |
| 14 | The belated correction : investment in agriculture will be increased by 30% ; curbs on the money supply will be relaxed ; loans will be given to exporters and indebted state enterprises ; ‘ specialised groups ’ will be set up to break ‘ debt chains ’ between enterprises . |
| 15 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
| 16 | Without the hair covering the ears and that shell belt and all he was n't someone you would stare at . |
| 17 | Crayfish populations are also critically depleted by overfishing , though naturally occurring environmental factors — such as warm water intrusions and low oxygen concentrations in the water as a result of global climactic changes — are thought to play a part . |
| 18 | b ) At the end of the Laxfordian events affecting the Lewisian rocks a suite of granite intrusions and accompanying pegmatite dykes and veins were emplaced c. 1750 m.y . |
| 19 | Foxes and other hunting animals need to know how far to pounce to catch their prey . |
| 20 | Rabbits , foxes and other woodland creatures were regularly seen on the lawns while the frequent sea frets which softly curled around her sash windows were evidence that the Norfolk coast was only six miles away . |
| 21 | The 1,500W Professional Dryer with diffuser by Carmen has five different heat settings and two speed settings and costs £23.95 . |
| 22 | Giggs ' goal was highlighted on Match of the Day , demonstrating uncanny reactions in taking advantage of Dean Austin 's stumble , slipping the ball through Jason Cundy 's legs and rounding keeper Ian Walker to shoot into a vacant net from an awkward angle . |
| 23 | All the sales fall was in the technical products division which makes seat covers and other motor fittings . |
| 24 | ‘ These slim volumes , ’ Robert Hewison has observed , ‘ with pastel covers and fragile wartime paper , became emblems of survival which no Ministry of Information publication or film documentary could manufacture . |
| 25 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 26 | The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has on view sixty-five examples of Mr Koons 's Neo-Dada wares — from the floating basketballs and stainless-steel bunny rabbits , to ceramic Michael Jackson sculptures and X-rated photographs of Mr Koons and his wife , Italian former porn-star Cicciolina , in saccharine flagrante . |
| 27 | They stole two fans and two convector radiators worth £510 from the building in Blue Barn Lane . |
| 28 | Previously , extractor fans and smoke detectors were considered to be items not ordinarily installed but , since 1 October 1992 , extractor fans and hard-wired smoke detectors installed in new housing to comply with Building Regulations are eligible for zero-rating . |
| 29 | Twenty two trainers and other industry representatives have offered support and convoys of five to 10 vehicles are to follow next month . |
| 30 | The school had a guidance programme which needed to develop a range of activities and contacts with employees , trainers and further education institutions so that students could make career choices in an informed and knowledgeable way . |